Dispensing vessel



R. H. ELLIOTT.

DISPENSING VESSEL.

APPLICATION men SEPT. a ma.

1,304,463. Patented ma 20, 1919.

U/Vf 614110 ROBERT I-I. ELLIOTT,- or CARTHAYGE, mrssouar.

DISPENSING VESSEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1919.

Application filed September 6, 1918. Serial No. 252,948.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT H. ELLIOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carthage, in the county of Jasper and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Dispensing Vessel, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of this invention to provide a vessel whereby measured quantities of liquid may be dispensed, without causing a waste of the liquid due to the bubbling upwardly of the air in the container whereinto the liquid is discharged.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description pro ceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in longitudinal section, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, parts appearing in elevation; Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail ShOWiIlg the application of the device.

In carrying out the present invention there is provided a receptacle 1 having a sloping bottom 2 and provided with a handle 3. The receptacle 1 may be supplied with circumscribing beads 4 indicating the capacity of the receptacle. There may be any desired number of these beads or other markings, and the capacity of the receptacle may be changed, as occasion may require. A depending spout 5 is assembled with the lowermost portion of the sloping bottom 2, the upper end of the spout, where the same is connected with the bottom 2, constituting a seat 6, adapted to cooperate with a valve 7 which may be in the form of a ball, the valve comprising a stem 8 slidable in an opening 9 formed in a rod 10 or other guide extended across the interior of the receptacle 1. A compression spring 11 surrounds a portion of the rod 10, one end of the compression spring abutting against valve 7, and the other end of the compression spring abutting against the rod or guide 10 to maintain the valve 7 on the seat 6. The upper end of the valv stem is pivoted at 12 to a lever 14,

fulcrumed intermediate its ends as shown at 15, on a standard 16 which is attached to the upper edge of the receptacle 1, the outer end of the lever 14 terminating in a thumb piece 17 disposed above or near to the handle 3. Legs 18 are pivoted at 19 to the receptacle 1, near to the lower end thereof.

A tubular casing 20 surrounds a portion of the spout 5 and includes an enlarged body 21 attached to the bottom 2 of the receptacle, the casing including a reduced neck 22 surrounding the spout 5, the spout projectin downwardly below the lower end of the nec 22. The body portion 21 of the casing 20 is supplied with one or more outlet openings 23.

When the parts are arranged as shown in Fig. 1, the spring 11 maintains the valve 7 seated, and any desired quantity of liquid may be placed in the receptacle 1. The spout 5 is introduced into the container which is to receive the liquid, and the valve 7 may be unseated by raising the stem 8 through the instrumentality of the lever 14, the liquid flowing from the receptacle 1 into the container which is to receive the liquid.

\Vhen the device is not in use, the legs 18 may be swung downwardly so that the receptacle 1 may be stood upright, the legs extending downwardly below the lower end of the spout 5. When the device is in use, the legs 18 may be turned upwardly into the dotted line positions of Fig. 1.

Especial attention is directed to the casin 20 which surrounds the spout 5. As is well known, the air flowing, upwardly out of a container, as liquid is discharged thereinto, frequently causes a spilling and loss of the liquid. In the present invention, the air and any liquid passing upwardly along with the air will be received within the casing 20, the lower end of the neck 22 restin on the upper end of the container C, as s own in Fig. 3. The air will flow outwardly through the openings 23, and any liquid which may have been carried upwardly along with the air, will flow downwardly from the neck 22 of the casing 20, into the container. The construction of the device obviously is such that none of the liquid which may happen to bubble upwardly along with the air will be lost or wasted, the structure being correspondingly economical in operation.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A device of the class described, comprising a receptacle provided upon its bottom with a discharge spout; a casing assembled with the bottom and surrounding the spout, the casing being spaced from the spout and being provided adjacent its upper end with an air outlet; a valve controlling the spout; and means actuated by an operator for'moving the valve.

2. A device of the class described, constructed as set forth in claim 1, and further characterized by the provision of depending legs extended downwardly below the spout 15 and pivoted at their upper ends to the receptacle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT H. ELLIOTT.

Witnesses:

G. I. VVALLACE, R. L. SHAFFER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

